Cartel Dealer Explains The Cartel & Life in Tijuana | Fernando Puente

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Fernando Puente the cartel homie i always wanted. He got wrapped up in cartel business as a teenager in Tijuana, and began smuggling people, g*ns, and dr*gs across the US border. He went to prison for a year and has since changed his ways. He explains the role of music in the cartels, what cartel parties are like, and how he survived getting kidnapped by Tijuanas most dangerous Cartel... The State Police. Welcome to camp baby!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Start
01:45 Working for anyone + friends in the cartels
04:06 Border town advantages
07:14 Growing up, Grandma involvement, going to school in US
14:37 Bumping into Paisanos + seeing other minorities
18:01 Mom getting arrested, complicated relationship w/ his father
24:00 Father was a cop + Prison riots and blaming cartels
25:19 “The Fourth Power” Government as cartel, music & grafitti
29:30 Breaking point - enemy becoming friends
34:56 How Fernando started out + handling your own business
39:11 Straddling different worlds at 16 + school life
46:15 Don Sergio - father figure, kidnapping + death
53:59 Death, jealousy & moving in the hood
01:00:56 Constantly in trouble, first time in prison + fighting
01:07:35 Tijuana tagging style, cartel fashion & etiquette
01:11:56 Cartels in US, police brutality + gang violence
01:16:02 Smuggling, stealing visas + practicing for border crossing
01:26:22 Nervous border crossers, Fee + people snitching
01:34:00 Separating Mexican gangs + prison
01:38:58 Fernando’s smuggling stats + scenarios
01:45:11 Craziest ways people cross the border
01:49:22 Separating families was cruel + justifying smuggling
01:54:43 Being in the MCC + probation
02:03:17 Listening to podcasts/music + quitting that life
02:06:45 Tattoos, ear for music + Cali herb is elite
02:11:50 Corridos - music & street life + banned in Mexico
02:21:31 Explaining Gavilan II by Peso Pluma + fake corridos
02:26:00 Chalino Sanchez’s “note” + Narcos recording their own corridos
02:33:53 Chapo’s corridos, El Bordo podcast + Cartel parties
02:47:31 Corruption not lack of firepower + US benefitting too
02:51:17 Starting in the Cartels + controlling industries, sending to Europe
02:57:37 Structure & scariest Cartel
03:02:44 Growing up with Sicarios + Contracts
03:11:57 The Bosses + different rules
03:18:08 Smuggling contraband + business interests
03:22:10 El Chapo arrest, escape, successors & getting too big
03:26:32 What defines a Cartel?
03:28:02 Cartels will always be appealing + people getting out
03:31:42 Friends joining rival cartels + people listening
03:35:42 Way out of this + writing books
03:39:14 Being a tourist in Mexico
03:44:25 Closest Fernando’s life was threatened
03:52:17 Therapy, trauma triggers + crying at movies
04:02:00 Mexican cartels following African religions + looking into faith
04:08:06 Redeeming your legacy
04:10:03 Fernando’s kidnapping
04:26:00 Shooting short movies + leaving the old life behind